Definitely a question I can't answer. Although these days SSL is rarely implemented on each individual server. Instead, load balancers handle SSL and traffic is

Definitely a question I can't answer. Although these days SSL is rarely implemented on each individual server. Instead, load balancers handle SSL and traffic is passed unencrypted to the backend servers doing the real work (presumably at this point, you're on a secure network). Many hardware load balancers even have specialized chips for handling SSL.